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Westeros would be a better place if Viserys never became a king and his kids weren't ruind a kingdom after

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PRINCESS RHAENYS TARGARYEN + MELEYS "... because in the end, that’s the relationship."

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Laenor dying really fucked up a lot for Rhaenyra, huh? Because like, Laenor is very valuable to Rhaenyra, as long as he's alive the rumors of her children's illegitimacy are basically worthless. In a patriarchal system such as Westeros, as long as a husband is around to proclaim that his children are his, there's nothing anyone can really do about it. It doesn't really matter what "evidence" is provided so long as Laenor wants to keep claiming these children, nothing is going to shift their status. After all, think about a patriarchal, feudal society where someone can go to a Lord and just declare that your children aren't actually yours, it would be a nightmare from a property/inheritance perspective. Even if the King who was the one to do that... the book goes out of the way to point out how scared the Lords are of losing their "rights", something like that would certainly imply that a Lord no longer has rights over his wife/children. It's a fascinating moment where Laenor and Rhaenyra are able to publicly flout repressive societal laws and then hide behind those same laws for protection.

But yeah anyway, Laenor is so valuable from that perspective, plus he's a dragonrider and in that sense very valuable against the Green faction. Plus he's representative of the Velaryons alliance, in addition to the Jace/Baela and Luke/Rhaena betrothals of course.

That's why Laenor's funeral is so interesting to me, it represents a complete reversal of fortune for the Blacks at that point and I feel like that has to be part of the significance of Aemond's claiming of Vhagar being done at Laenor's funeral. Because the incident perfectly illustrates how Rhaenyra is on the backfoot now that Laenor is dead. Suddenly the rumor of the children's illegitimacy is no laughing matter, without Laenor as a shield the accusations of bastardy become dangerous for her children. As well, they've lost a valuable dragon rider and to further illustrate the point, the other side now has the biggest dragon. Not to mention this takes place at Driftmark which again I think symbolizes how now Rhaenyra is not necessarily strong because of her Velaryon alliance.

I totally get why the book accuses Daemon of killing Laenor because like... regardless of whether he did it, after the Vhagar incident, Rhaenyra basically had to marry him. He's the only one with a dragon that can feasibly stand up to the Greens, he in theory has a fierce enough reputation to help silence the rumors of her children's illegitimacy (though this is a double edged sword) and he's Baela and Rhaena's father which means he's key to ensuring that the Velaryon/Targaryen alliance remains strong through the marriages of their children. All of the things about how he is a terrible person who hurt her reputation in the past and hurt her reputation currently remain true but like fundamentally... what other choice is there in the moment? You can say well "she shouldn't have had children with Harwin Strong" but like... for all this is a fantasy world, they have yet to introduce time travel. She made certain choices under certain circumstances and when things changed she was suddenly in a very different situation and she had to pivot.

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Lil sketch from chapter one of my modern AU Office Hours (of which there is a new chapter)

they will not be looking this happy again for a while sorry not sorry

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RHAENYS TARGARYEN - "She's quite headstrong. Smart, [...] intense, because the core of any Targaryen is a dragon."

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Rhaenys + her slight smirk Steve Toussaint: What she does [...] there's always a slight smile playing on [Rhaenys's] face in scenes that I always find interesting. Like a sense of being amused at the situation. If you go back and look at Season One, it's quite a consistent thing.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | 02.02 Rhaenyra the Cruel

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King Jaehaerys picking his next heir to the iron throne and the two heirs of his previous two heirs.

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[...] when he walks into Small Council for the first time with the brooch, and he stands at the table in the position that she stood in. The moment’s just for him, and then he goes around to his place as the Hand — so looking for things like that, and trying to understand how that can affect somebody, because this is, of course, his life partner, and he is somewhat untethered without her.

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"The light has gone out of my life."

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CORLYS & RHAENYS + physical intimacy.

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Rhaenys’ black & grey riding outfit (worn underneath the armour)

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.01 “A Son for a Son” // 2.04 “The Red Dragon and the Gold”

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My castle is a tomb. . .empty , haunted.

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“We’re off to battle again, old girl” 🥀 Rhaenys and Meleys, two queens🤍

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Rhaenys’ black riding outfit with striped lapels

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.02 "Rhaenyra the Cruel" // 2.03 "The Burning Mill" // 2.04 "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

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Rhaenys Targaryen as Dragonstone Princess🥀

By Constellation Txt

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𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒’𝓈 𝓃𝑜 𝓌𝒶𝓇 𝓈𝑜 𝒽𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒢𝑜𝒹𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓀𝒾𝓃, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜 𝓌𝒶𝓇 𝓈𝑜 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝑜𝒹𝓎 𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒹𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑜𝓃𝓈…” ❤️‍🔥